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The Naughty or Nice List.It's that time of year again. Each year we ask you to
evaluate a list of people, places, and proposals from the viewpoint of Santa
Claus, if Santa were a resident of the City of St. Louis.

According to rankings compiled by Forbes, St. Louis is
one of the most affordable cities in the country. The city’s top ranking is driven by our
affordable housing, and by costs below the national average for things like transportation,

As most of us remember from civics, the Presidential
election is held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in
years divisible by 4 – a month and day chosen to accommodate an agrarian

MayorSlay.com’s writers just recently finished reading “Eligible,”
Curtis Sittenfeld’s update of Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice." (We liked it and it inspired us to do this
week’s Mini-Poll about books.)

MayorSlay.com recently listened to a National Public
Radio story about the return policy at LL Bean. It is, to say the least, a
generous one. Anything, at any time, regardless.The story discussed, interestingly enough, the effect of the policy on

St. Louis County recently passed a law prohibiting
tobacco sales to anyone under the age of 21. Missouri, like many states, has no
minimum smoking age. The County’s new law, which Mayor Francis Slay says he would

With Labor Day past and seersucker retired, Missouri’s
political campaign season is officially here. The TV political ads are starting to hang out around local news broadcasts, campaign buses are taking to the

The political season is upon us. There will be a new US
President, a new Missouri Governor, and a new St. Louis City Mayor by April
2017. Interest in those offices (and others) will peak as the Election Days
draw closer.

It's that time of year again... First day of school pictures blanket social media, marking both the change of the seasons and the constant passage of time. Bake sales replace BBQs and sweatshirts replace swimsuits.

The American Dream, compounded of unequal parts of home
ownership and upward mobility, has shaped the experience of being an American –
and our political and graduation rhetoric – since the streets of the St. Louis

For the City’s 43,000 or so children, the start of the
school year is right around the corner. Schools
in the St. Louis Public School District start classes August 17th. Some charter schools and suburban school

Missouri has played a distinguished role in the popularization of air conditioning. In 1902, an office building in Kansas City became
the first one in the US to install an air conditioning system. Two years later, the

The legislative body of the City of St. Louis is the
Board of Aldermen. Its members represent the City’s 28 wards and are presided
over by a President, who is elected citywide. Aldermen and their president
serve four year terms. Legislation –

St. Louis does live music pretty well. With a knowledgeable base of fans for almost
every style of music, the city has grown and now supports a crop of excellent artists and fills
dozens of venues in any given month.

Working
for Mayor Francis Slay, the writers of MayorSlay.com end up reading plenty of
press releases from our Official Cousins in City Hall Room 200. For the most
part, we find the writing much better than our own and easy to comprehend.

Motherhood, says the mother writing this, is the most demanding, thankless, constant and
entirely rewarding profession on the entire planet. To be a mother is to always
be on the clock. Motherhood is a permanent tattoo that resists

In 2002, the smart folks at Gallup began asking Americans
whether we thought the state of moral values in the country as a whole was
getting better or getting worse.In that
year and in every year since, a super-majority of Americans have answered that

The first day of April is a perilous day for the gullible.
Friends, strangers, the media, and sassy companies conspire to make us believe
something that isn’t so. The custom of setting aside a day to pull harmless pranks on our

Many St. Louisans will celebrate Easter this weekend. For some
people it will be a happy religious observance; for others, a secular
sugar-fest bunny hop, with brunch. For the rest, it will be just another
Sunday.

We are a city that values its traditions. One of MayorSlay.com's
favorites is the seasonal celebration of community known as the Lenten fish
fry. On Fridays during weeks preceding Easter, churches throughout the city

The State of Washington now has the highest percentage of
registered voters in the entire country. That’s because a new law there
automatically registers every holder of a state license or ID, unless the

This Sunday, the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos will go
heads to heads on the NFL’s (and broadcast television’s) most important day of the year.
Will the nearly-quadragenarian Peyton Manning be able to school the baby-faced

With the ascendance of Pinterest, millennials, and self-proclaimed foodies, the Cult of Food has earned a look in a Mini-Poll. Farm-to-table, fenugreek, and acai have joined "meat" and "potatoes" in our vocabulary.

In 2011, St. Louis Board of Aldermen approved a bill which banned
indoor smoking from public places, with the exception of tobacco stores,
casinos, and small (2,000 square feet or less) adult-only bars generating 25

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